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Author | : Russell A. Potter |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780791426258 |
Viewing hip-hop as the postmodern successor to African American culture's Jazz modernism, this book examines hip-hop music's role in the history of the African-American experience.
Author | : Jean-Louis Bourgeois |
Publisher | : Aperture |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
In these images, white arabesques dance on red walls, and abacus-like mud colonnades shield farmers from sun and wind; mud is "twisted" into playful columns, sculpted into ornate facade relief, and massed into lofty towers of majestic mosques. This edition's new afterword discusses adobe politics in New Mexico, and illustrates the authors' own adobe home.
Author | : Camille Washington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780935640991 |
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minn. and three other institutions between January 29, 2011 and March 18, 2012.
Author | : Amy Abugo Ongiri |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0813928591 |
Exploring the interface between the cultural politics of the Black Power and the Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, Amy Ongiri shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative moment in the construction of "authentic blackness" as a cultural identity. While other books have adopted either a literary approach to the language, poetry, and arts of these movements or a historical analysis of them, Ongiri's captures the cultural and political interconnections of the postwar period by using an interdisciplinary methodology drawn from cinema studies and music theory. She traces the emergence of this Black aesthetic from its origin in the Black Power movement's emphasis on the creation of visual icons and the Black Arts movement's celebration of urban vernacular culture.
Author | : Henning Klöter |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9004184937 |
An incisive, multi-faceted study of a Spanish-Chinese manuscript grammar of the seventeenth century, The Language of the Sangleys presents a fascinating, new chapter in the history of Chinese and general linguistics.
Author | : Maiken Umbach |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804753432 |
Vernacular Modernism advocates a rethinking of the importance of the vernacular as part of the modernist discourse of place, from art to literature, from architectural to social practice.
Author | : Peter D. Kramer |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2002-06-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0743223241 |
Finding himself the idealized center of a media circus, a terrorist who is also an English professor recounts his exploits in a letter to his estranged son. In this fictional debut, the author of "Listening to Prozac" brilliantly illuminates contemporary sensibilities and their often astonishing effects on the way lives unfold.
Author | : Frank Maresca |
Publisher | : Bulfinch Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780821227800 |
A groundbreaking retrospective of art from "off the beaten path" sculpture features spectacular images from a wide variety of American artists and craftspeople, in a study that includes everything from religious totems and antique trade signs to hand-carved canes. 12,500 first printing.
Author | : Christi Jay Wells |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2021-04-02 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0197559301 |
Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance offers a new look at the complex intersections between jazz music and popular dance over the last hundred-plus years. Author Christi Jay Wells shows how popular entertainment and cultures of social dancing were crucial to jazz music's formation and development even as jazz music came to earn a reputation as a "legitimate" art form better suited for still, seated listening. Through the concept of choreographies of listening, the book explores amateur and professional jazz dancers' relationships with jazz music and musicians as jazz's soundscapes and choreoscapes were forged through close contact and mutual creative exchange. It also unpacks the aesthetic and political negotiations through which jazz music supposedly distanced itself from dancing bodies. Fusing little-discussed material from diverse historical and contemporary sources with the author's own years of experience as a social jazz dancer, it advances participatory dance and embodied practice as central topics of analysis in jazz studies. As it explores the fascinating history of jazz as popular dance music, it exposes how American anxieties about bodies and a broad cultural privileging of the cerebral over the corporeal have shaped efforts to "elevate" expressive forms such as jazz to elite status.
Author | : Tom Dalzell |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2012-03-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0486121623 |
Entertaining, highly readable book pulses with the vernacular of young Americans from the end of the 19th century to the present. Alphabetical listings for each decade, plus fascinating sidebars about language and culture.